Episode 186 Scott Adams - The Manafort Jury, “Punishing” Brennan, Black Support for Trump

bing-bing-bing-bing bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum hey everybody come on in here hello Nicole and JP Tyler Ken come on in here Donna Sheldon it's good to see you all hey Jack we got stuff to talk about today it does seem like it's slow news again but a few things going on for example the president has canceled the expensive military parade yay I'm very happy that that parade got canceled and it got canceled for exactly the right reasons it sends a really good message doesn't it the president asked for something then he got the price and then he said the price is too high and then he canceled it that's pretty good stuff whoever is complaining about the audio the audio is fine so there's something wrong on your end let's talk about the news reports about Brennan losing his security clearance now the way it was reported is that the president changed his story because the original reason given was that Brennan was erratic his behavior was erratic and apparently that's sort of a magical word when it comes to security clearances if somebody is erratic then they don't get their security clearance so that was the original reason given and then later President Trump said that the the reason was the Russia hoax and so the news reported that as inconsistent but was it is that inconsistent the first version is Brendon is erratic the second version is that Brennan was pushing this Russia conspiracy narrative those are the same thing what was he being erratic about the Russia conspiracy thing and the way he the way he reacted to it so to call those two different stories is a bit of a stretch it's a bit of a stretch wouldn't you think because his erratic 'no swelled that topic nobody's complaining about you know how he is at home it was just about that we haven't heard him to say anything else right has Brendon talked about anything else it's the only topic so that's your fake news flag for the day now some of you are watching the story about apparently CNN and some other outlets Politico I forget which others might be Washington Post might be New York Times they way they've they've colluded to try to get the judge in the Manford case to allow them to have the names and addresses of the jurors now I didn't know a lot about the topic of jury privacy but apparently in normal regular cases the the juries are not anonymous but there are cases such as a RICO case or something high-level where a juror could get killed or influenced then those cases that the apparently I think it's the judge's decision they can keep it private now in this particular case the Manford trial I feel like privacy is really important for these jurors and and it seems to me that what the the press is lining up to find out is you know fact-check me on this but doesn't the fact that the press is trying to figure out who these jurors are suggest to you that the press expects it's not going to be a guilty verdict because let me ask you this if the if the prep if the jurors all voted guilty let's say on every count would the press have any compelling reason to talk to them well maybe to fill a little time but it would be terribly important because if it was guilty they would be unanimous and there's not much point in talking to people who are unanimous because we saw the same information they saw you know essentially so there's not much to ask so it feels like the press is expecting the hung a hung jury at least on some counts there are 18 counts I don't know if they'll all be hung but don't you think that the press also expects that the potential reason for the home jury might be political in other words there might be a trump supporter or two on the jury who just isn't willing to let the government do what it wants to do with their president you know it might be that there's some mole on the jury who is just trying to fight the deep state and just won't won't vote guilty no matter what now let's get to the question of revealing the identities of jurors my prediction is that judge Ellis will not allow the press to have the names and addresses so I think it's probably a lot a lot of worry about nothing everything that we've seen about this judge would suggest that he is smart has he ruled already oh he said no already did he okay I saw I saw a report that he said it was a bad idea but I didn't know if that was the final ruling okay so I guess it wasn't a prediction because I'm predicting something's already happened but it didn't seem to me likely in any case but here's the thing if you were on a jury and you knew that the press had asked for your identity how would you vote on the crime now you're saying to yourself well it depends on the crime no it doesn't no it doesn't depend on the crime at all if you put me on a jury and you tell me that the the defendant will Know Who I am and be able to find me my address I'm voting innocent I'm voting not guilty I would absolutely throw a trial over the issue of my own privacy being outed if I especially if I thought it was a danger so that's my my take on it if if the judge had said yeah go ahead you can have the identities of the jurors those jurors would be absolutely within their ethical and moral right to just say okay not guilty we're going home not guilty dony I don't even want to hear your arguments and it wouldn't have they wouldn't require all of the jurors to say not guilty it would only take one of them to say okay I'm done you guys can do all of the all the deliberating you want but I'm not going to listen to the deliberations I'm not going to be part of it I've already said not guilty it's not going to change so that would be me that they wouldn't want to have me on that jury and keep in mind that the your the reason that we have juries is to get to something that's like justice right because you are human beings to use a little bit of judgement about what justice looks like in any case and I would consider that the greater justice the greater justice is to keep the jury from being that's a little bit higher priority so I wouldn't have I wouldn't even have a skosh of guilt or feeling that I was in the wrong if you know the jury's identities had been outed had I just said all right not guilty we're done I don't care what the defendant did I'm absolutely uninterested at this point mobsters are loving this yeah now mobsters those are cases in which the jury is not identified so for that very reason now let me ask you this if you were me and you were recognizable by sight now by everybody but if you had you know a bunch of people in a in a jury trial she adds azar somebody would recognize me do you think it would be safe for me to be on a jury where there was let's say some kind of violence involved not so much not so much so on the trials in which there was violence and a potentially violent defendant I have used a little bit more effort to make sure I did not serve on those but as I've said before I do recommend they used you do jury duty I'm very Pro jury duty even if you can get out of it you should serve because it makes you feel part of the system and you gain an appreciation like like you've never had before you know being being on a jury is a very humbling experience because you actually can feel how I was serious the jurors are about getting it right and that always that always oppressed me I've only I've been on two juries but I was always impressed at how dead serious the jury was about justice and getting it right and trying as hard as they could it's a very sobering experience makes you it makes you like your country a lot more all right so what were the other topics oh so there's an article in CNN door obviously trying to respond to the the the Rasmussen poll that shows that black support was up to 36% for the president and I can't remember if I said this on periscope or I was talking to somebody else but here's my here was my theory on that not a frickin chance that's real that 30 36 % approval level I don't think there's a slightest chance that's a real number or really even close to it now I'd like that to be true you know every know my bias right yeah if if there were any number I wanted to be true it would be that one and that would be at the top of my list for something I'd want to be true because it would be a such a healthy sign but CNN does their reporting and their conclusion looking at other polls is that it's more like 9 percent now based on your observation of the world does it feel to you that it's more like 36 percent or more like 9 percent I'm gonna go with 9 I'm just based on people I know people I've talked to reactions I've seen how the votes have go and just you know my sense of it is that the number is a lot closer to 9 than it is to 36 now having said that even the CNN article concluded that it's going up so even if it's only nine percent CNN concludes and let me read it to you because it's keep in mind this is in the context of debunking that high number of 36 percent and I think it did a good job of debunking it frankly and I get to the end buh-buh-buh-buh so they're talking about it so listen to this this is CNN no friend of the president here right so it says still the importance of even a slight shift in african-american voter sentiment shouldn't be underestimated they make up greater than 10 percent of the u.s.

electorate isn't it more like 15 percent isn't the black population closer to 15 percent I thought it was a lot more than 10 percent and more in key swing states so here's the important part that the population is greater in key swing states like Florida Michigan and Virginia if you apply the changes we see in Trump's approval rating among blacks compared with his vote chair in 2016 and all other groups have voted the same it would mean an IFFT in the national margin of about 1% toward Trump and these swing states mentioned it could be even greater somebody's saying 13% that sounds about right one point may not seem like a lot but remember that half of Clinton's national margin in 2016 oh that's half of Clinton's national margin yeah if Trump is able to hold on to his additional African American support it could aid him in 2020 so even even CNN says it is up and it's up in a way that's definitely substantial but you know there their definition of a boost only this if African American support for the president were 36% Republicans would sweep the midterms and by writer am I wrong and I don't think there's any chance that they well there's some chance but not a big chance that the Republicans will just you know dominate and just you know I don't think there's gonna be a gigantic red tidal wave and if black support for President Trump were 36% that's that's the only thing you could get you couldn't have a legitimate 36 percent approval of this president from the black voters and have any result other than a gigantic Republican victory of the massive proportions do you think we're gonna get that no we're not gonna get that now it could be that Republicans actually win by a little bit could be that they don't lose much don't lose the house could be that as close but they do lose the house there are a lot of possibilities here and I don't have a specific prediction for it but you're looking at the predictions for the midterm and they don't reflect anything like a 36% approval of by black voters however I do think it is absolutely true that the president's support has gone up now consider the things that have been thrown at this president and the fact that has gone up it's remarkable I've been reminded that we have not enjoyed the simultaneous epyon where are you with your simultaneous if you say why not join me in the simultaneous up oh that's good Candace Owens is creating the red wave someone says well she's definitely moving the needle we'll see if we'll see how big the wave is or isn't but there is no there's no doubting the fact that Candace is now a a major political force in the country and that's pretty impressive how old is Candace I don't remember how old she is but does anybody have a well why don't I google it and the answer is she's 29 years old so look at that look at the size of her influence at 29 is there anybody else who has that much influence at 29 can you think of anybody can you think of anybody who's ever had that much influence at age 29 I'm trying to think if I can think of anybody you know those the Parkland students got a lot of press but I think in the end they didn't really move the needle did they they just sort of faded away yeah Candace is 29 but I don't know if I've oh yeah Alexandra Cortes alright good one so on the other side Alexandra was having a pretty big impact Kanye is 41 I think would I appear at the Commonwealth with Candice well I haven't been invited though yeah those questions are just a little too hypothetical but would I appear with her of course of course I would all right so I might do another afternoon periscope today on a special topic I want to talk about the blight Authority and want to talk about some ideas I want to get your thinking caps on and see if we can think our way into into the Golden Age I'll give you a tease for it and it goes like this so I'll do a special periscope on this my take on the cost of living which is a big part of poverty which is a big part of the economy etc is that the the cost of just owning a home or a place or even renting but the cost of just living is too high and the homes are designed you know in in a vacuum in other words when somebody designs a home they design something that looks good people will buy it but it's really not about the entire way the community is organized so I want to get your ideas later so you can think about it between now and then of wasy if you were to start from scratch and say throw out every every way that things have been done before how would you design a small community it doesn't have to be a whole city just a you know it could be several blocks it could be something maybe something the size of a small college campus if you were to design it from scratch from bare dirt and you're to say what's the best way to feed them what's the best way for them to travel what's the best way for them to get educated what's the best way for them to have security best way to care for the pets best way to have you know good light and energy and you know low energy costs what's the best way for people to interact with each other and be with people their age what's the best way to take care of the elderly what's the best way to do childcare in a safe way what's what best way to have the food equality this is one of walk Newsome's I think really an innovation probably one of the best I'll give walk some credit for this I'm not sure if he's the original thinker on this but he's the one who's popularized the idea the idea of food equality because your your ability to be effective in this world is very much influenced by the food you eat because the food changes your chemistry chemistry changes how you think how you feel everything from your ability to you know handle pressure to your aunt you know to your concentration and everything else and I think he makes an extraordinarily important point that if there were some way to you know close the food equality gap you might you might see some big gains it's worth experimenting with that on any in any event so you put on your thinking caps I'll ask you for ideas later and you could put those ideas on the website at blight Authority calm blight is spelled B as in boy and then light it's like be light blight be Li ght Authority dot-com go to the forum and you can put your own ideas down there as much as you want and but just let me let me just give you a snapshot of that if you were to build a community today could you imagine that you would not build it to take advantage of smart phones just just think of that one variable every home that's been built from the beginning of time through today has ignored the fact largely ignored except for trivial reasons the fact that people own smart phones you know above the age of 10 or whatever and how would you design a place if you just assumed everybody including the kids said smart phones well one of the things you might do is instead of kitchen in every home you might your community might have a central cafeteria and then everybody including the kids could just go to their smartphone and say Oh peanut butter and jelly sandwich now below some age maybe the parent has to approve it but imagine the teenagers being able to feed themselves by just saying oh okay I'll choose from this and again maybe the parents can limit what types of foods their kids can order so that they get only healthy stuff for example and then the the cafeteria brings it to your house and you've got a drop box on your house that is he either has a warmer or a cooler on it and you just stick it in there imagine having runners you know just some teenagers or something who when the orders come in from all over the community they just grab it and take it now a central cafeteria would not only would not only be you know jobs for people who had never worked before young people could become runners they could learn to cook etc but they would be buying food in bulk and and preparing it in bulk and that should bring the cost way down don't know for sure but I think it would and then it would allow for example single parents if you're a single parent and you've got to take care of feeding your kids and working that's a pretty big load but if but if the kid can come home after school with a nap and say give me a sandwich and the sandwich appears in 15 minutes in the Dropbox of their own house you know mom or dad the single parent can just keep working and the kid has a as a good meal so that's that's just one small example and I'm not saying that's a good idea by the way I'm just trying to expand your thinking that if you were to build a community from scratch you would most certainly include phones a modern community today I'm not even sure it needs a garage because you could easily imagine ride-sharing usually they're using your smart phones you could imagine using uber using your smart phones you could imagine knowing the bus schedule and exactly where the bus is imagine if you could see the bus on the map just like uber so it'd be so convenient to take the bus you could just stay in your house until it was time to go outside and there's the bus imagine if you had security cameras everywhere and every resident of just the community not the whole world but every resident could look at the security cameras on their phone and they could see their own house only but they could also say the cameras on the street so they could check and check their kid kids on the street nothing bad happening out there so but the point is oh the other thing is here's I put a home theater in my house because I make too much money and when I built the house I was like ah home theater I'm gonna put this big screen in these comfortable chairs and everything and that was now you know 10 years ago if I were to build a house today would I put a home theater in it I would not no Matt no amount of money would encourage me to build a home theater in a house I built today why because let me show you how I watch movies today that's it that's I I consume all of my television shows all of my movies all of my content on my phone because my phone comes with me and I can do other things I can stick it in my pocket and keep my earphones on I can do the laundry won't listen to the news I can lay in bed you know in the dark and you know there's no loud TV on no two people want to hear the same content at the same time so you could be in the house with three other family members they've all got their headphones on and they're looking at their phones so if you were to build a home from scratch today would you even include a screen like a TV screen you know every home designed today has a place for the TV would you even bother if you were going to design one from scratch maybe not so so just think about how living in a community could be completely different with smartphones here's another app that you should absolutely have there's an app called the neighborhood or maybe it's just neighborhood at the art of it so it's basically it's like a private Facebook for your neighborhood that's a bad way to describe it because it doesn't it's not for posting pictures of your family it's for borrowing things or saying your dog is lost or does anybody have a babysitter so it's basically a sharing information app for just your immediate neighborhood or you can you can define it to be as much of your small or big neighborhood now I'll tell ya you use that for a while and you can't live without it because people are finding pets that have gotten away they're in my neighborhood we have coyotes and some dangerous animals that wander down once in a while and the the word goes out you know put your put your cat inside there's a coyote out it's just amazingly useful so just take that idea whether it's yes next is it called next door is that it oh I know I forget the name yeah I'm sorry it's not the neighborhood it's called next door one word next door and yeah and whatsapp groups etc so imagine imagine how effective neighborhood watch would be if you just have apps and cameras yeah too much sharing is nothing private anymore so one of the elements of a new neighborhood designed from scratch would be how much privacy people are willing to give up for how much benefit and it seems to me that people who are moving from a crime infested area if you said to them here's the deal for very low cost you can live in this awesome community but the trade-off is there going to be cameras on hold the public spaces would you say I don't like cameras in the public spaces but I do like living where there's no crime and my kids can go play outside so sign me up I as long as it wasn't required nobody would have to live there you you would simply choose to live there if the costs and benefits made sense would you give up some of your privacy while you're outside I'm not talking about any privacy in your house but would you give up some public privacy for safety a lot of people would is this for a low-income folks yeah everything I'm talking about so far is at least mentally I'm trying to design that for a low-cost housing for the future for people with low incomes alright that's enough for now and I'm going to talk about other things that later today community cafeterias hard pass well what if they were optional all right talk about things later bye

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bum bum bum hey everybody

come on in here hello Nicole and JP

Tyler Ken come on in here

Donna Sheldon it's good to see you all

hey Jack we got stuff to talk about

today it does seem like it's slow news

again but a few things going on for

example the president has canceled the

expensive military parade yay

I'm very happy that that parade got

canceled and it got canceled for exactly

the right reasons it sends a really good

message doesn't it the president asked

for something then he got the price and

then he said the price is too high and

then he canceled it that's pretty good

stuff whoever is complaining about the

audio the audio is fine so there's

something wrong on your end let's talk

about the news reports about Brennan

losing his security clearance now the

way it was reported is that the

president changed his story because the

original reason given was that Brennan

was erratic his behavior was erratic and

apparently that's sort of a magical word

when it comes to security clearances if

somebody is erratic then they don't get

their security clearance so that was the

original reason given and then later

President Trump said that the the reason

was the Russia hoax and so the news

reported that as inconsistent but was it

is that inconsistent the first version

is Brendon is erratic the second version

is that Brennan was pushing this Russia

conspiracy narrative those are the same

thing what was he being erratic about

the Russia conspiracy thing and the way

he the way he reacted to it so to call

those two different stories

is a bit of a stretch it's a bit of a

stretch wouldn't you think because his

erratic 'no swelled that topic nobody's

complaining about you know how he is at

home it was just about that we haven't

heard him to say anything else right has

Brendon talked about anything else it's

the only topic

so that's your fake news flag for the

day now

some of you are watching the story about

apparently CNN and some other outlets

Politico I forget which others might be

Washington Post might be New York Times

they way they've they've colluded to try

to get the judge in the Manford case to

allow them to have the names and

addresses of the jurors now I didn't

know a lot about the topic of jury

privacy but apparently in normal regular

cases the the juries are not anonymous

but there are cases such as a RICO case

or something high-level where a juror

could get killed or influenced then

those cases that the apparently I think

it's the judge's decision they can keep

it private now in this particular case

the Manford trial

I feel like privacy is really important

for these jurors and and it seems to me

that what the the press is lining up to

find out

is you know fact-check me on this but

doesn't the fact that the press is

trying to figure out who these jurors

are suggest to you that the press

expects it's not going to be a guilty

verdict because let me ask you this if

the if the prep if the jurors all voted

guilty let's say on every count would

the press have any compelling reason to

talk to them well maybe to fill a little

time but it would be terribly important

because if it was guilty they would be

unanimous and there's not much point in

talking to people who are unanimous

because we saw the same information they

saw you know essentially so there's not

much to ask so it feels like the press

is expecting the hung a hung jury at

least on some counts there are 18 counts

I don't know if they'll all be hung but

don't you think that the press also

expects that the potential reason for

the home jury might be political in

other words there might be a trump

supporter or two on the jury who just

isn't willing to let the government do

what it wants to do with their president

you know it might be that there's some

mole on the jury who is just trying to

fight the deep state and just won't

won't vote guilty no matter what now

let's get to the question of revealing

the identities of jurors my prediction

is that judge Ellis will not allow the

press to have the names and addresses so

I think it's probably a lot a lot of

worry about nothing everything that

we've seen about this judge would

suggest that he is smart has he ruled

already oh he said no already did he

okay

I saw I saw a report that he said it was

a bad idea but I didn't know if that was

the final ruling okay so I guess it

wasn't a prediction because I'm

predicting something's already happened

but it didn't seem to me likely in any

case but here's the thing if you were on

a jury and you knew that the press had

asked for your identity how would you

vote on the crime now you're saying to

yourself well it depends on the crime no

it doesn't no it doesn't depend on the

crime at all if you put me on a jury and

you tell me that the the defendant will

Know Who I am and be able to find me my

address

I'm voting innocent I'm voting not

guilty

I would absolutely throw a trial over

the issue of my own privacy being outed

if I especially if I thought it was a

danger so that's my my take on it if if

the judge had said yeah go ahead you can

have the identities of the jurors those

jurors would be absolutely within their

ethical and moral right to just say okay

not guilty we're going home

not guilty dony I don't even want to

hear your arguments and it wouldn't have

they wouldn't require all of the jurors

to say not guilty it would only take one

of them to say okay I'm done you guys

can do all of the all the deliberating

you want but I'm not going to listen to

the deliberations I'm not going to be

part of it I've already said not guilty

it's not going to change so that would

be me

that they wouldn't want to have me on

that jury and keep in mind that the your

the reason that we have juries is to get

to something that's like justice right

because you are human beings to use a

little bit of judgement about what

justice looks like in any case and I

would consider that the greater justice

the greater justice is to keep the jury

from being

that's a little bit higher priority so I

wouldn't have I wouldn't even have a

skosh of guilt or feeling that I was in

the wrong if you know the jury's

identities had been outed had I just

said all right not guilty we're done I

don't care what the defendant did

I'm absolutely uninterested at this

point mobsters are loving this yeah now

mobsters those are cases in which the

jury is not identified so for that very

reason now let me ask you this if you

were me and you were recognizable by

sight now by everybody but if you had

you know a bunch of people in a in a

jury trial she adds azar somebody would

recognize me do you think it would be

safe for me to be on a jury where there

was let's say some kind of violence

involved not so much not so much so on

the trials in which there was violence

and a potentially violent defendant I

have used a little bit more effort to

make sure I did not serve on those but

as I've said before I do recommend they

used you do jury duty I'm very Pro jury

duty

even if you can get out of it you should

serve because it makes you feel part of

the system and you gain an appreciation

like like you've never had before you

know being being on a jury is a very

humbling experience because you actually

can feel how I was serious the jurors

are about getting it right and that

always that always oppressed me I've

only I've been on two juries but I was

always impressed at how dead serious the

jury was about justice and getting it

right and trying as hard as they could

it's a very sobering experience makes

you it makes you like your country a lot

more

all right so what were the other topics

oh so there's an article in CNN door

obviously trying to respond to the the

the Rasmussen poll that shows that black

support was up to 36% for the president

and I can't remember if I said this on

periscope or I was talking to somebody

else but here's my here was my theory on

that not a frickin chance that's real

that 30 36 % approval level I don't

think there's a slightest chance that's

a real number or really even close to it

now I'd like that to be true you know

every know my bias right yeah if if

there were any number I wanted to be

true it would be that one and that would

be at the top of my list for something

I'd want to be true because it would be

a such a healthy sign but CNN does their

reporting and their conclusion looking

at other polls is that it's more like 9

percent now based on your observation of

the world does it feel to you that it's

more like 36 percent or more like 9

percent I'm gonna go with 9 I'm just

based on people I know people I've

talked to reactions I've seen how the

votes have go and just you know my sense

of it is that the number is a lot closer

to 9 than it is to 36

now having said that even the CNN

article concluded that it's going up so

even if it's only nine percent CNN

concludes and let me read it to you

because it's keep in mind this is in the

context of debunking that high number of

36 percent and I think it did a good job

of debunking it frankly and I get to the

end

buh-buh-buh-buh so they're talking about

it so listen to this this is CNN no

friend of the president here right so it

says still the importance of even a

slight shift in african-american voter

sentiment shouldn't be underestimated

they make up greater than 10 percent of

the u.s. electorate isn't it more like

15 percent isn't the black population

closer to 15 percent I thought it was a

lot more than 10 percent and more in key

swing states so here's the important

part that the population is greater in

key swing states like Florida Michigan

and Virginia if you apply the changes we

see in Trump's approval rating among

blacks compared with his vote chair in

2016 and all other groups have voted the

same it would mean an IFFT in the

national margin of about 1% toward Trump

and these swing states mentioned it

could be even greater somebody's saying

13% that sounds about right one point

may not seem like a lot but remember

that half of Clinton's national margin

in 2016 oh that's half of Clinton's

national margin yeah if Trump is able to

hold on to his additional African

American support it could aid him in

2020 so even even CNN says it is up and

it's up in a way that's definitely

substantial but you know there their

definition of a boost only this if

African American support for the

president were 36%

Republicans would sweep the midterms and

by writer am I wrong

and I don't think there's any chance

that they well there's some chance but

not a big chance that the Republicans

will just you know dominate and just you

know I don't think there's gonna be a

gigantic red tidal wave and if black

support for President Trump were 36%

that's that's the only thing you could

get you couldn't have a legitimate 36

percent approval of this president from

the black voters and have any result

other than a gigantic Republican victory

of the massive proportions do you think

we're gonna get that no we're not gonna

get that now it could be that

Republicans actually win by a little bit

could be that they don't lose much don't

lose the house could be that as close

but they do lose the house there are a

lot of possibilities here and I don't

have a specific prediction for it but

you're looking at the predictions for

the midterm and they don't reflect

anything like a 36% approval of by black

voters however I do think it is

absolutely true that the president's

support has gone up now consider the

things that have been thrown at this

president and the fact that has gone up

it's remarkable I've been reminded that

we have not enjoyed the simultaneous

epyon where are you with your

simultaneous if you say why not join me

in the simultaneous up

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Candace Owens is creating the red wave

someone says well she's definitely

moving the needle we'll see if we'll see

how big the wave is or isn't but there

is no there's no doubting the fact that

Candace is now a a major political force

in the country and that's pretty

impressive

how old is Candace I don't remember how

old she is but does anybody have a well

why don't I google it and the answer is

she's 29 years old so look at that look

at the size of her influence at 29 is

there anybody else who has that much

influence at 29 can you think of anybody

can you think of anybody who's ever had

that much influence at age 29 I'm trying

to think if I can think of anybody you

know those the Parkland students got a

lot of press but I think in the end they

didn't really move the needle did they

they just sort of faded away

yeah Candace is 29 but I don't know if

I've oh yeah Alexandra Cortes alright

good one so on the other side Alexandra

was having a pretty big impact Kanye is

41 I think would I appear at the

Commonwealth with Candice well I haven't

been invited though yeah those questions

are just a little too hypothetical but

would I appear with her of course of

course I would

all right so I might do another

afternoon periscope today on a special

topic I want to talk about the blight

Authority and want to talk about some

ideas I want to get your thinking caps

on and see if we can think our way into

into the Golden Age I'll give you a

tease for it and it goes like this so

I'll do a special periscope on this my

take on the cost of living which is a

big part of poverty which is a big part

of the economy etc is that the the cost

of just owning a home or a place or even

renting but the cost of just living is

too high and the homes are designed you

know in in a vacuum in other words when

somebody designs a home they design

something that looks good people will

buy it but it's really not about the

entire way the community is organized so

I want to get your ideas later so you

can think about it between now and then

of wasy

if you were to start from scratch and

say throw out every every way that

things have been done before how would

you design a small community it doesn't

have to be a whole city just a you know

it could be several blocks it could be

something maybe something the size of a

small college campus if you were to

design it from scratch from bare dirt

and you're to say what's the best way to

feed them what's the best way for them

to travel what's the best way for them

to get educated what's the best way for

them to have security best way to care

for the pets best way to have you know

good light and energy and you know low

energy costs what's the best way for

people to interact with each other and

be with people their age what's the best

way to take care of the elderly what's

the best way to do childcare in a safe

way what's what best way to have the

food equality this is one of walk

Newsome's

I think really an innovation probably

one of the best

I'll give walk some credit for this I'm

not sure if he's the original thinker on

this but he's the one who's popularized

the idea the idea of food equality

because your your ability to be

effective in this world is very much

influenced by the food you eat because

the food changes your chemistry

chemistry changes how you think how you

feel everything from your ability to you

know handle pressure to your aunt you

know to your concentration and

everything else and I think he makes an

extraordinarily important point that if

there were some way to you know close

the food equality gap you might you

might see some big gains it's worth

experimenting with that on any in any

event so you put on your thinking caps

I'll ask you for ideas later and you

could put those ideas on the website at

blight Authority calm blight is spelled

B as in boy and then light it's like be

light blight be Li ght Authority dot-com

go to the forum and you can put your own

ideas down there as much as you want

and but just let me let me just give you

a snapshot of that if you were to build

a community today could you imagine that

you would not build it to take advantage

of smart phones just just think of that

one variable every home that's been

built from the beginning of time through

today has ignored the fact largely

ignored except for trivial reasons the

fact that people own smart phones you

know above the age of 10 or whatever and

how would you design a place if you just

assumed everybody including the kids

said smart phones well one of the things

you might do is instead of

kitchen in every home you might your

community might have a central cafeteria

and then everybody including the kids

could just go to their smartphone and

say Oh

peanut butter and jelly sandwich now

below some age maybe the parent has to

approve it but imagine the teenagers

being able to feed themselves by just

saying oh okay I'll choose from this and

again maybe the parents can limit what

types of foods their kids can order so

that they get only healthy stuff for

example and then the the cafeteria

brings it to your house and you've got a

drop box on your house that is he either

has a warmer or a cooler on it and you

just stick it in there

imagine having runners you know just

some teenagers or something who when the

orders come in from all over the

community they just grab it and take it

now a central cafeteria would not only

would not only be you know jobs for

people who had never worked before young

people could become runners they could

learn to cook etc but they would be

buying food in bulk and and preparing it

in bulk and that should bring the cost

way down don't know for sure but I think

it would and then it would allow for

example single parents if you're a

single parent and you've got to take

care of feeding your kids and working

that's a pretty big load but if but if

the kid can come home after school with

a nap and say give me a sandwich and the

sandwich appears in 15 minutes in the

Dropbox of their own house you know mom

or dad the single parent can just keep

working and the kid has a as a good meal

so that's that's just one small example

and I'm not saying that's a good idea by

the way I'm just trying to expand your

thinking that if you were to build a

community from scratch you would most

certainly include phones a modern

community today I'm not even sure it

needs a garage because you could easily

imagine ride-sharing usually

they're using your smart phones you

could imagine using uber using your

smart phones you could imagine knowing

the bus schedule and exactly where the

bus is imagine if you could see the bus

on the map just like uber so it'd be so

convenient to take the bus you could

just stay in your house until it was

time to go outside and there's the bus

imagine if you had security cameras

everywhere and every resident of just

the community not the whole world but

every resident could look at the

security cameras on their phone and they

could see their own house only but they

could also say the cameras on the street

so they could check and check their kid

kids on the street nothing bad happening

out there so but the point is oh the

other thing is here's I put a home

theater in my house because I make too

much money and when I built the house I

was like ah home theater I'm gonna put

this big screen in these comfortable

chairs and everything and that was now

you know 10 years ago if I were to build

a house today would I put a home theater

in it I would not no Matt no amount of

money would encourage me to build a home

theater in a house I built today

why because let me show you how I watch

movies today that's it that's I I

consume all of my television shows all

of my movies all of my content on my

phone because my phone comes with me and

I can do other things I can stick it in

my pocket and keep my earphones on I can

do the laundry won't listen to the news

I can lay in bed you know in the dark

and you know there's no loud TV on no

two people want to hear the same content

at the same time so you could be in the

house with three other family members

they've all got their headphones on and

they're looking at their phones so if

you were to build a home from scratch

today would you even include a screen

like

a TV screen you know every home designed

today has a place for the TV would you

even bother if you were going to design

one from scratch maybe not so so just

think about how living in a community

could be completely different with

smartphones

here's another app that you should

absolutely have there's an app called

the neighborhood or maybe it's just

neighborhood at the art of it so it's

basically it's like a private Facebook

for your neighborhood that's a bad way

to describe it because it doesn't it's

not for posting pictures of your family

it's for borrowing things or saying your

dog is lost or does anybody have a

babysitter so it's basically a sharing

information app for just your immediate

neighborhood or you can you can define

it to be as much of your small or big

neighborhood now I'll tell ya you use

that for a while and you can't live

without it

because people are finding pets that

have gotten away they're in my

neighborhood we have coyotes and some

dangerous animals that wander down once

in a while and the the word goes out you

know put your put your cat inside

there's a coyote out it's just amazingly

useful so just take that idea whether

it's yes next is it called next door is

that it oh I know I forget the name

yeah I'm sorry it's not the neighborhood

it's called next door one word next door

and yeah and whatsapp groups etc so

imagine imagine how effective

neighborhood watch would be if you just

have apps and cameras yeah too much

sharing is nothing private anymore so

one of the elements of a new

neighborhood designed from scratch would

be how much privacy people are willing

to give up for how much benefit and

it seems to me that people who are

moving from a crime infested area if you

said to them here's the deal for very

low cost you can live in this awesome

community but the trade-off is there

going to be cameras on hold the public

spaces would you say I don't like

cameras in the public spaces but I do

like living where there's no crime and

my kids can go play outside so sign me

up I as long as it wasn't required

nobody would have to live there you you

would simply choose to live there if the

costs and benefits made sense would you

give up some of your privacy while

you're outside I'm not talking about any

privacy in your house but would you give

up some public privacy for safety a lot

of people would is this for a low-income

folks yeah everything I'm talking about

so far is at least mentally I'm trying

to design that for a low-cost housing

for the future for people with low

incomes alright that's enough for now

and I'm going to talk about other things

that later today community cafeterias

hard pass well what if they were

optional all right talk about things

later bye